Savoy Steelpan on Bhum Bhum Time

Café | Couverture MUTEK #2 | programmation avec Vincent Lemieux et Village numérique

MUTEK Festival takes place in Montreal August 25 - 30, 2026, exploring the intersection of music and technology, and featuring local and international talent. Café interviews Vincent Lemieux about Village numérique

August 27, 2026 2026 Cafe MUTEK

Café | Couverture MUTEK #1 | entrevue avec les artistes NGL Flounce et Abulzooz

MUTEK Festival takes place in Montreal August 25 - 30, 2026, exploring the intersection of music and technology, and featuring local and international talent. Café interviews two participating artists, NGL Flounce et Abulzooz.

August 27, 2026 2026 Butcher T

Butcher T’s Noon Time Cuts

Butcher T’s Noon Time Cuts provides interviews from international/local artists and a wide variety of music genres from Old/New School, Soul/R&B, Hip Hop, Funk, and House. This program also airs the rhythms of Caribbean and Latin music including Reggae, Soca, Zouk, Salsa, Bachata, etc., just to name a few. Featuring legendary DJ Butcher T, Noon Time Cuts began in 1992 and showed Montreal what a real Urban Programme could be like. Butcher T lets the music flow and plays whatever genre suits the mood - full of surprises.

August 27, 2026

Montreal Sound Ark | Outsider tapes 80s 90s Montreal

Outsider tapes 80s 90s Montreal from the digitized collections at ARCMTL. Some demos and live tapes from more established locals. Drawing from local non-profit Archive Montreal’s huge collection of local music scene material, Montreal Sound Ark brings you the best of the Montreal underground from yesterday. Interviews, memories, insights and accompanying ephemera on the show’s blog will flesh out the journey through three decades of do-it-yourself sounds in Montreal. Hosted by longtime scenester and digger Louis Rastelli (DJ LRX80) with regular guests and guest DJs.

August 27, 2026 2026 Harmony Express

Harmony Express Live From le Mal Necessaire

Sensual bangers for the Monday night heads. Hex P's love for the tunes drips from the airwaves.... she's playing tracks inspired by local dancefloors and late night connections, so pull out the futon and get grooving.

August 27, 2026 2026 The Montreal Sessions

wetdogg live on Montreal Sessions

wetdogg goes live on The Montreal Sessions. wetdogg is an experimental artist, currently based in Montreal, and originally from Detroit, Michigan. Their work spans genres, playing with vocals and enchanting listeners as they spin a web of sound.

August 27, 2026 2026 QueerCorps

QueerCorps | Featuring Festival Ctrl+Alt

QueerCorps features artists from Festival Ctrl+Alt. Ctrl+Alt does not simply seek to showcase unfamiliar faces. It platforms voices that have been ignored for far too long. From July 24 to 26, the Village is reborn as the epicentre of a politico-artistic act of expression. The Ctrl+Alt Festival materializes a space where the Arts of the night intertwine to compose a living portrait of Montréal after dark: a city shaped by its under-recognized talents, its Queer scenes, its creative margins, and its underground legacy.

July 9, 2026 2026 Ecolibrium Harbinger Showcase

Off The Hour x Unrigged x Suoni Per Il Popolo LIVE from Casa Del Popolo pt. 2, Saturday 27 June 2026

Nelson and Andrea from the News Collective joined Andre Goulet from Unrigged at Casa Del Popolo on Sunday June 21st during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival to talk about the goings-on that provide the political backbone that holds up this legendary Montreal experimental music festival, now in its 26th year. They were joined by Rosie Long Decter (Maisonneuve/New Feeling), Nik Barry-Shaw (Council of Canadians), Ole Hendrickson and Conor Curtis (Sierra Club Canada), independent journalist Rachel Gilmore, and tech writer Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us).

July 9, 2026 2026 Free City Radio Harbinger Showcase

Off The Hour x Unrigged x Suoni Per Il Popolo LIVE from Casa Del Popolo pt. 1, Sunday 21 June 2026

Nelson and Andrea from the News Collective joined Andre Goulet from Unrigged at Casa Del Popolo on Sunday June 21st during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival to talk about the goings-on that provide the political backbone that holds up this legendary Montreal experimental music festival, now in its 26th year. They were joined by Stefan Christoff (Free City Radio), Kalden Dhatsenpa from CUTV, Katia Lo Innes from the Breach, Savannah Stewart from The Rover, and Niall Ricardo, the federal NDP president.

June 23, 2026 2026 Suoni Per Il Popolo The Montreal Sessions

SUONI x CKUT 2026 vol. 4: iWant2BeOnTV – 23 June 2026

Alex Apostolidis (iWant2BeOnTV, Criminal Trap, Durex) does a Suoni Per Il Popolo Montreal Session - reviewing Suoni past, present, and future - taking calls and some personal picks in the lead up to "The Spelling Bee Of The Century" on Friday, June 26th, 2026.

June 9, 2026 2026 Suoni Per Il Popolo The Montreal Sessions

SUONI x CKUT 2026 vol. 2: Smash the Patriarchy! + live performance by Jahsun & Engone Endong – 9 June 2026

Kiva Stimac, Artistic Director, and CKUT fav Alexis O'Hara joined us live in studio for the second of four Suoni takeovers to talk about this year's 26th edition of this legendary experimental music festival, happening from June 16-28 this year on the Plateau. This episode featured a chat with members of the Smash the Patriarchy! show and a live performance by Jahsun & Engone Endong.

June 2, 2026 2026 Suoni Per Il Popolo The Montreal Sessions

SUONI x CKUT 2026 vol. 1 – The Jellicle Ball & Harmony Syndrome Live – 2 June 2026

Kiva Stimac, Artistic Director, and CKUT fav Alexis O'Hara joined us live in studio for the first of four Suoni takeovers to talk about this year's 26th edition of this legendary experimental music festival, happening from June 16-28 this year on the Plateau.

April 16, 2026 2026 Funding Drive Hersay: The Teachings

The Teachings LIVE from CKUT for Funding Drive 2026

The whole cast of The Teachings made it to CKUT's studios with their kids in tow to do an extra special live episode for our 2026 Funding Drive and beautiful chaos ensued.

March 4, 2026 2026 Sounds of Resistance

Sounds of Resistance – The War On Iran

A special broadcast by Samaa Elibyari and Amir, featuring Mitchell Plitnick (ReThinking Foreign Policy, Jewish Voice for Peace), Abdallah El-Arian (Georgetown University, Qatar), Yves Engler (Montreal activist), with sounds from Montreal downtown anti-war protest, compiled by Amir.

January 29, 2026 2026 Panacea

Panacea – Asian-Canadian Mental Health PT 2: The Current Picture & Future Needs

In this segment, we continue the conversation with Sage from the previous week. We talk about what the current picture looks like in terms of (lack of) spaces for expression and conversation, (lack of) representation and adaptability in mental and physical healthcare, and (lack of) representation in academia and research. We then look towards the future in terms of what we'd like to see changed and give our listeners calls to action on how to take part in the change we'd like to see.

January 18, 2026 The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout – ENRIQUE DOMENECH

In his own words, "New and latest releases plus new discoveries from the global underground jazzy scene."

December 16, 2025 The Montreal Sessions

The Montreal Sessions: Wetdogg Takeover

Wetdogg does not want an infinite scroll; she wants an infinite stroll. Listen back to her live set featuring a Roland MC-505, SP404, loop pedal etc etc, at the CKUT studios with a grip of new songs.

December 13, 2025 Funky Revolutions

Afrofrost on Funky Revolutions

Since 1994, host Khalid and guests have invited you to groove & celebrate the history of Africana music - this week, the holiday spirit has infected their funk. Tune in to hear some AFROFROST, alongside interviews with Kwaliti & Kabey Konate.

December 10, 2025 If You Got Ears

Act Against War on If You Got Ears w/ Stefan Christoff

A mix of new music sounds locally and from around the world, including songs from the new album Act Against War, broadcast directly from the CKUT 90.3 FM studios by Stefan Christoff.

December 9, 2025 Soul Perspectives

Soul Perspectives LIVE w/ Kym Dominique-Ferguson

We are joined live by poet, theatre performer, filmmaker, and producer Kym Dominique-Ferguson on this special episode of Soul Perspectives, CKUT's long-running program dedicated to housing critical discussion about local, national and international issues of concern to Montreal’s Black community.

December 8, 2025 World Skip The Beat

Danishfest on World Skip the Beat

Something is in the air in Denmark and we're hear to find out... Tune in to hear your host play some popenhagen, from ML Buch to Smerz to Elias Ronnenfelt to CKUT's very own Ondskyld.

December 2, 2025 Local Journalism Initiative Stories

McGill bans pro-Palestine strikers from campus

McGill banned a handful of students from campus after they took part in classroom disruptions during a week of strikes for Palestine. CKUT speaks to one of the banned students.

November 4, 2025 2025 Utopia's Paradise

Utopia’s Paradise LIVE w/ iPod Baby

Utopia's Paradise goes LIVE for the first time in 5 years with guest host Firuza (aka iPod Baby), bringing you 4 straight hours of deep house, NYC garage, Montreal disco, and underground club music from the 1970s to present day.

October 23, 2025 Palestinian Coverage

Under The Olive Tree w/ Sawssan Kaddoura

Canada’s only radio show dedicated solely to Palestine, Under The Olive Tree covers various news and topics related to Palestine and the Palestine-solidarity movement in Quebec and beyond. On the air since 2006.